Cowpea leaves are lost annually due to infestation and spoilage when being transported clients the losses at local markets brought on by inadequate postharvest handling procedures market glut, particularly during peak seasons. High moisture content from cowpea harvest stage may contribute increased hence lowering quantity quality. The choice of appropriate harvesting drying method can help redu...

Net houses can be used in tropical environments to protect crops such as cowpea against large insect pests, thereby avoiding pesticide treatments while sustainably mitigating the effects of climate change. We investigated a push-pull strategy prevent small pest outbreaks net house. The push component consisted two stimulus plants, i.e. Cymbopogon citratus and Tagetes minuta, pull stimuli visual...

Seventeen warm season annual forage options were evaluated as livestock feed to be grazed, hayed, ensiled, or left a cover crop. Treatments planted in mid-May and terminated late September with one harvest for silage, two hay cuttings, three grazing rotations. One additional treatment was unharvested serve Biomass production cost produce final outputs determined. Even restricted rainfall during...

Mechanical tests can allow for the mimicking of textural attributes foods as perceived by humans. Here we report on use mechanical compression test to study reactions underlying cooking cowpea seeds (beans) until doneness. The creep was applied deal with time-dependence strain, ?(t), at a constant force and derive elasticity, Ke viscosity, Kv indices different heating times. results, were fitte...

Drought is a major constraint for agricultural production worldwide and likely to become aggravated by global warming. It can induce land degradation, exorbitant food prices menace livelihoods. Approaches retaining optimal yield, especially in rainfed staple crops such as cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp] are paramount. Biostimulants vermicompost leachate (VCL), seaweed extract [Kelpak® (KEL...

Gudibanda a small town in Chickkaballapur district has been selected to study whether land holdings can remove rural poverty. Five villages were earmarked and 200 samples collected from these where simple random sampling was carried out find if the relation between poverty farmers with fragmented lands.Most of grew vegetables such as brinjals, cowpeas, tomatoes, potatoes beans. Also commercial ...